Excerpt from The Human Side of Plants
Of recent years there has come into man's life a new joy. This joy is the acquaintanceship with plants. Nature has long been ready to reveal her secrets, but only to those prepared to hear and see. Gradually a new understanding has arisen between Nature and mankind, and as a result we obtain from such a revelation a joy undreamed of a few years ago.
In no department of the sciences has this awakening to truth been more in evidence than in botany. Plants no longer are lifeless things labelled and grouped under ponderous Latin titles; they are highly developed organisms, which see, hear, taste, feel, walk, swim, run, fly, jump, skip, hop, roll, tumble, set traps and catch fish; decorate themselves that they may attract attention; powder their faces; imitate birds, animals, serpents, stones; play hide and seek; blossom underground; protect their children, and send them forth into the world prepared to care for themselves - indeed, do all those things which we ourselves do!
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